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F1 2010 Patch Details

Helios (Ian Webster), one of the Community Managers for Codemasters has just posted an update for the upcoming F1 2010 patch. It appears the team is hard at work to address numerous issues currently plaguing the game. Helios is quick to point out that the list below is merely “a snap shot of the key improvements.”

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Jake3605603d ago

About time. No mention of AI fuel and the wet weather updates are vague...

SynGamer5603d ago

Helios mentioned at the end of the post that the list was merely "a snap shot of the key improvements." I take that to mean there are more tweaks and improvements in the patch.

aaron58295603d ago

I was at valencia, started with intermediates.. surprisingly, the AI was pretty slow in the wets.. moved up to 4th, until final lap, i ran out of fuel.. slow and painfully losing positions.. ended up dead last .. and no, i did not use "Fast" Throttle map...

T_T

steve30x5603d ago

Immagine what DX11 will look like on the consoles. After all us PC gamers are stuck with DX9. (I am being sarcastic again lol)

iamgoatman5603d ago

I'm eagerly awaiting this patch, because the game is nothing short of broken at the moment. I've only got to Spain in career mode but I've had to spot playing altogether because of the AI simply not pitting in the majority of the races. I think I've only seen 1 race in which everyone pitted, which is pretty ridiculous, not to mention the AI's other bizarre behavior, like the "catch up" effect the devs claimed isn't there, but clearly is in some form. Also tyre and fuel wear seem to be non existent with the AI.

I'm also hope they fix the crappy performance as well. I average around 30-45FPS during a race, be it rain or shine, and that's with an E8400 @ 3.8Ghz and an ATI 5850 @ 980/1200. Checking both CPU and GPU usage shows that my CPU usage never goes higher than 70%, and GPU no higher than 40%, which is just rubbish really. I've actually read people with Nvidia 8XXX series cards outperforming me!

steve30x5603d ago

Im getting 103FPS with the game @ 1680 x 1050 and everything at max. I have an intel Core i5 760 @ 3.9ghz , 4GB DDR3 1333mhz ram , Asus Maximus Gene and 2x GTX470.

iamgoatman5603d ago

You are running 2 470's though, and one is roughly equal in performance to my 5850. But 103FPS still sounds low for that set up, what kind of performance did you have in Dirt 2 in DX9?

ProjectVulcan5603d ago (Edited 5603d ago )

The engine is quite well multithreaded. Core i7 (quad) and a lone 8800GT manages 40FPS 1680 x 1050 max settings 4 x MSAA. Your GPU is rather mismatched with only a core 2 duo.

Time to go quad.

SynGamer5603d ago

The new patch should improve multi-core support, specifically;

"4. Optimisations – We have made better use of multi-core processors in general, which will lead to better framerates on higher end machines.

5. Additional Support - Support for SandyBridge processors, which also adds support for currently available 'modern' processors, like Core i7, which wasn't correctly detected previously."

ProjectVulcan5603d ago

Im due a new GPU in the next couple months, either a radeon 6970 or a GTX580.

However even with venerable old 8800GT SLI, 70FPS+ is no problem 1920 x 1080 maximal settings 4 x AA vsync off. Rarely drops below 60 frames with vsync enabled, on a full race day with a lot of rain, part of the track with a lot of geometry and a whole bunch of cars in front of me (doesnt happen too often heh) kicking up stuff i still never seen worse than 40 frames a second. Even then it wont last more than a couple seconds.

iamgoatman5603d ago

The problem isn't my core 2 duo, many people have reported similar frame rates even with high end quads in SLI and Crossfire setups, theres a couple of threads on the official codemasters forums that outline the problem. Besides, I average around 75FPS in Dirt 2 in DX9, and although F1 has more cars on track, there is definitely some performance issues. At the moment the game barely seems to make use of my dual core, showing around 70% usage on both cores during a race, but with Dirt 2, both cores are nearly always fully in use, which could either a bug that's hopefully easy to fix, or just really poor optimization.

I plan on coughing up for a new CPU early next year when AMD and Intel release their new processor lines, but my duo has been fine for the majority of my games, only being a bottleneck when the game was specifically coded with quads in mind, which still isn't all that many.

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EA SPORTS™ WRC - Development Update

An update on EA SPORTS™ WRC.

Dear Rally Community,

Every great journey eventually finds its finish line, and today, we announce that we've reached the end of the road working on WRC.

Knushwood Butt295d ago

'It marked the first time the studio had used the license in 18 years since 2022’s Colin McRae Rally 3.'

Can you not get AI to do proofreading?

TheColbertinator295d ago

Weird article written by a bot.

In any case I knew EA would ruin Codemasters.

badboyz09294d ago (Edited 294d ago )

Codemasters will likely close soon😞

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EA Delists Multiple Classic Games On Steam Without Any Warning

Multiple games developed by Codemasters have been delisted on Steam just recently without any previous warning from EA.

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CrimsonWing69338d ago

Here’s the deal with this bullsh*t, and this is the single reason I f*cking hate digital, this wouldn’t be so much an issue if these people would give an announcement before they pull their games so people have a chance to get them before they’re gone. I mean, how hard is that to do?

Like, I prefer digital for the convenience of it and making me less of a hoarder, but stuff like this can drive me up the wall and I’m aware this also happens with physical games, but you can still acquire a game from eBay, though all scalped to hell, whereas digital you’re SOL… unless you have a PC.

spicelicka338d ago

Not to mention they also replace old base games with "bundles" back at full price. Some of the old and shittiest COD games are still full price on digital stores.

phatak338d ago (Edited 338d ago )

yup everything you said is correct, but with digital you can also acquire it lol thanks to piracy, thats what made me a pirate . Spec ops the line got delisted last year and I just pirated it and never looked back, unfortunately these bigger publishers dont care about older games so dont even give a reminder, so if they dont even care about their own older games, why should I help them with their new games, ill pirate those as well. GOG is the best, you dont even need to pirate those, the games literally dont have any drm, and you can keep the files permanently too.

Michiel1989338d ago

the reason why i hate digital is because in 20 years when the servers go down, you can't play single player games anymore because shitty fucking companies want you to login to some arbitrary service to pad the numbers.

When a company like GoG does better than a titan like Sony, you know how terrible the state of gaming is.

Vits338d ago

Technically you are not wrong, only forgot to add Rights Management after the "digital".

CantThinkOfAUsername338d ago

These games had exactly 0 players. If you haven't played any of them by now you really didn't care in the slightest. Suddenly you're dying to play one of these classic turds? Sail to cs.rin.ru.

MrWood338d ago

Your right, if you click on the article vs the clickbait picture showing new and modern games, they are all old games I’ve never even heard of.

Zeke68338d ago

If you never heard of any of these games, are you even a gamer? ;)

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Lightning77338d ago

So much for game preservation in this industry......

gold_drake338d ago

i mean .. i hate this practise. atleast give people like a 2 months headsup.

idiots

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Report: F1 24 Cover Datamined From F1 23 Files as Website Surfaces

The F1 24 announcement seems imminent, as the Champions Edition cover and details have surfaced in F1 23's game files after the latest patch.

Yi-Long723d ago

To Sony, and so many other companies in this industry, the short-term satisfaction and happiness of their shareholders means so much more to them than their employees, their products, and their customers.

Yi-Long723d ago

Apologies, don't know how the above comment ended up here while it clearly should have gone to other article about the Sony lay-offs. Please delete.